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Escobar, Arturo:
Encountering Development - new book

ISBN: 9780691001029

ID: 581585

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasional critics while poverty and hunger became widespread. "Development" was not even partially "deconstructed" until the 1980s, when new tools for analyzing the representation of social reality were applied to specific "Third World" cases. Here Escobar deploys these new techniques in a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general, concluding with a discussion of alternative visions for a postdevelopment era. Escobar emphasizes the role of economists in development discourse--his case study of Colombia demonstrates that the economization of food resulted in ambitious plans, and more hunger. To depict the production of knowledge and power in other development fields, the author shows how peasants, women, and nature became objects of knowledge and targets of power under the "gaze of experts." Business Business eBook, Princeton University Press

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Arturo Escobar:
Encountering Development - Paperback

1994, ISBN: 9780691001029

ID: 944405086

Princeton University Press, November 1994. Trade Trade. Very Good. Very Good Softcover. Light soiling and shelfwear to covers. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984., Princeton University Press

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Arturo Escobar:
Encountering Development the Making & Unmaking of the Third World - Paperback

1994, ISBN: 9780691001029

ID: 13387932604

S Softcover, Very good Legendary independent bookstore online since 1994. Reliable customer service and no-hassle return policy., [PU: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS]

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Arturo Escobar:
Encountering Development : The Making and Unmaking of the Third World - Paperback

ISBN: 0691001022

ID: 22648360117

[EAN: 9780691001029], Gebraucht, [PU: Princeton University Press]

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Escobar, Arturo:
Encountering Development - used book

ISBN: 9780691001029

ID: 1014812884

Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Good condition., Princeton University Press